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Open wound : the long view of race in America
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Title
Open wound : the long view of race in America / William McKee Evans.
ISBN
9780252034275 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252034279 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-320) and index.
Contents
How the American racial system began: Atlantic slavery becomes market-driven and color-defined
Anglo Americans adopt the Atlantic racial system
The construction of planter hegemony, 1676-1776
The era of the American Revolution: the challenge to slavery and the compromise
The old south's triumph
The old south's crisis and the emergence of the white solidarity myth
Emancipated but Black: freedom in the free states
The planter and the "wage slave": a reactionary alliance
King cotton's jesters: the minstrel show interprets race for the white working class
The war of the cabins: the struggle for the soul of the "common man"
The republican revolution and the struggle for a "new birth of freedom"
Reconstruction: the radical challenge, 1865-77
Between slavery and freedom: the conservative quest for a halfway house
The Age of segregation at its zenith: the racial system in a world of colonialism
Radical challenge, liberal reform: African Americans gain new allies
The American century, the American dilemma
The Black freedom movement
The racial system in the age of corporate globalism, technological revolution, and environmental crisis.
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